The six-car crash during practice Wednesday at the Daytona International Speedway is another reminder that racing is a dangerous sport.

The crash started with contact between Joey Logano and Matt Kenseth, but the real losers were Parker Kligerman, Dave Blaney and the sport’s determination to keep car parts from landing in the grandstands.

Kligerman’s car turned on its roof and slid atop the Steel and Foam Energy Reduction barrier near the flag stand. The car ripped a whole in the fence and a piece of the front bumper assembly landed on the sidewalk in the stands.

Nobody was around that portion of the racetrack, so nobody was injured. It took track and NASCAR officials more than an hour to make repairs.

For the most part, the fence did its job. Two-inch cables acted like ring ropes in a boxing ring to keep the 3,400-pound car, traveling at 195 mph, from going through the fence.

The damage still marked a dramatic improvement from a final-lap accident a year ago in the Nationwide Series race when car parts showered the grandstands, sending more than a dozen people to the hospital.

But NASCAR can’t allow anything, including a small piece of debris, from the racetrack to penetrate the fencing and land in the stands. One solution could be to move the stands back, but that’s not easy when you’re talking about 100,000 seats or a 2.5-mile racetrack.

Until there’s a resolution, if that’s even possible, everyone in the sport needs to remember racing is a dangerous sport.